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So it's not a leftist thing
My posts are not complicated, you should get your head checked out because you are constantly lost in these conversations
You are having a great deal of trouble following fairly simple and straightforward posts
Identity politics, tribal politics, hate politics based on dividing people by color and gender and sexual identity etc etc etc are very much alt left things, and alt left radicals have totally hijacked the 'Gay Pride' idea for partisan political purposes which have nothing to do with sexual identity, except to USE our differences to promote hate and fear and violence
Gay Republicans (or the lack thereof) were never mentioned on my part until you stumbled blindly into the conversation making these bizarre assumptions about things I didn't post
It is a "Leftist" thing in Russia where gays are persecuted.
The "gay pride" agenda was not hijacked by the Left. It fell to the Left by default after Republican and Christian Right Nuttery rejection and persecution.
You need only remind yourself of Anita Bryant's "Save Out Children" campaign in 1977 to overturn a Dade County, Florida non-discrimination ordinance.
Anita claimed that the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her children biblical morality. It was a well-organized campaign that initiated a bitter political fight between unprepared gay activists and highly motivated Christian fundamentalists. When the repeal of the ordinance went to a vote, it attracted the largest response of any special election in Dade County's history, passing by 70%.[note 1] In response to this vote, a group of gay and lesbian community members formed Pride South Florida, now known as Pride Fort Lauderdale, an organization whose mission was to fight for the rights of the gay and lesbian community in South Florida.
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Mike Thompson discovered in a poll taken in March 1977 that women in Dade County opposed repealing the measure two to one; they saw their gay friends as relatively harmless. Save Our Children's strategy, therefore, worked to prove that homosexuals were amoral, promiscuous, and defiant of traditional gender roles, and that they were a specific danger to children.[16] Bryant took this strategy as a crusade, delivering speeches that intoned that Dade County's passing of the ordinance "guts the law on the side of the unrighteous. If homosexuals are allowed to change the law in their favor, why not prostitutes, thieves, or murderers?"[17] She specifically connected homosexuals with child molesters, saying "Some of the stories I could tell you of child recruitment and child abuse by homosexuals would turn your stomach."[17] Bryant resented the media depiction of her as hateful, saying that her inspiration came "out of love—not only love for God's commandment and His word, but love for my children and yours. Yes, and even love for all sinners—even homosexuals."[18]
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So, Tamaka, that's how Gay Pride was born. And that is one of the commonalities that President Putin of Russia has with the Christian Right in America.
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